CC-NIE Networking Infrastructure: Enhancing the OrangeGrid - Upgrading the Syracuse Campus Network to Enable High Throughput Research Computing

CC-NIE 网络基础设施：增强 OrangeGrid - 升级雪城大学校园网络以实现高吞吐量研究计算

• 批准号: 1341006
• 负责人: Christopher Sedore
• 金额: $ 49.85万
• 依托单位: Syracuse University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1341006&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CC; NIE; Networking; Infrastructure; Enhancing

Syracuse University's OrangeGrid uses the HTCondor High Throughput Computing System and a custom virtual machine manager to allow idle computers in offices and student labs to run research-computing tasks. With over 7000 CPU cores, and growing, OrangeGrid is used by Syracuse University's research and teaching community for science and engineering applications. Science drivers for OrangeGrid come from a diverse range of projects, including gravitational-wave astronomy, biological physics, theoretical condensed-matter physics, computational fluid dynamics, high-energy physics, Earth sciences, soft matter physics, and biomedical and chemical engineering.The CC-NIE Networking Infrastructure project at Syracuse University upgrades the campus network infrastructure to support data-intensive research computing on OrangeGrid. This project increases the campus backbone bandwidth from 10Gbps to 40Gbps and provides 10Gbps links to the buildings providing the largest number of OrangeGrid cores. This project directly affects the usability and productivity of OrangeGrid, opening it to a wider-range of science and engineering projects from SU researchers.OrangeGrid is an important resource for Syracuse University's faculty and students. The combination of easy access and power make OrangeGrid especially important to beginning researchers and small groups who do not have their own computing resources. Undergraduate and graduate students from the College of Engineering and Computer Science and the College of Arts and Sciences have access to OrangeGrid, giving them early experience with high-throughput research computing. The experiences gained from running OrangeGrid provide a road map for other universities who wish to leverage unused cycles from desktop computing for scientific research.

雪城大学的 OrangeGrid 使用 HTCondor 高吞吐量计算系统和自定义虚拟机管理器，允许办公室和学生实验室中的空闲计算机运行研究计算任务。 OrangeGrid 拥有超过 7000 个 CPU 内核，并且还在不断增长，被雪城大学的研究和教学社区用于科学和工程应用。 OrangeGrid 的科学驱动力来自广泛的项目，包括引力波天文学、生物物理学、理论凝聚态物理学、计算流体动力学、高能物理学、地球科学、软物质物理学以及生物医学和化学工程。雪城大学的 CC-NIE 网络基础设施项目升级了校园网络基础设施，以支持 OrangeGrid 上的数据密集型研究计算。该项目将园区主干带宽从10Gbps提高到40Gbps，并为提供最多OrangeGrid核心的建筑物提供10Gbps链路。该项目直接影响 OrangeGrid 的可用性和生产力，使其向 SU 研究人员的更广泛的科学和工程项目开放。OrangeGrid 是雪城大学教师和学生的重要资源。 OrangeGrid 易于访问和强大的功能相结合，对于刚起步的研究人员和没有自己的计算资源的小团体来说尤其重要。 工程与计算机科学学院以及艺术与科学学院的本科生和研究生可以使用 OrangeGrid，为他们提供高通量研究计算的早期经验。 从运行 OrangeGrid 中获得的经验为其他希望利用桌面计算中未使用的周期进行科学研究的大学提供了路线图。